Re: libreoffice printing portrait as landscape

From: Gary Aitken <freebsd_at_dreamchaser.org>
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2024 06:06:57 UTC
On 1/3/24 06:10, Markus Hönicka wrote:
> 
>> Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org> hat am 2024-01-02 05:31 CET
>> geschrieben:
>> 
>> 
>> I've had a problem for some time with 12.4, and after upgrading to 
>> 13.2 still have the same problem:
>> 
>> Libreoffice, and only libreoffice, prints portrait as landscape. If
>> I have it print to file and then print the pdf via xpdf, it prints
>> fine as landscape.  Printing is via cups.
>> 
>> 13.2-RELEASE-p8 FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE-p8 GENERIC amd64 
>> libreoffice-7.6.2.1
>> 
>> Is anyone else seeing this problem, or even printing from
>> libreoffice?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Gary
> 
> Hi Gary,
> 
> I'm sorry for the late reply, but I needed to upgrade my slightly
> outdated setup first.
> 
> FreeBSD wombat 13.2-RELEASE-p8 FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE-p8 GENERIC amd64 
> libreoffice-7.6.2.1
> 
> I'm also using CUPS for printing. I don't see your problem on this
> setup. A writer portrait document prints as portrait using the
> automatic orientation in the print dialog. Both the portrait and
> landscape manual settings are honored properly.
> 
> regards, Markus

Thanks for looking into it.  It looks like it is a problem with
large format printers only.  See:
   https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154975

Gary